Read the following for how to use the 'how-many' function
http://www.neverfriday.com/sweetfriday/2008/06/emacs-tip-word-counting-with-a.html
The following site had a good idea on how to produce number of chars
http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_count-region.html
Inspired by http://750words.com

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